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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

1899 – 1980 · aged 81

American physicist (1899–1980)

Born
13 Mar 1899 · Middletown
Died
27 Oct 1980 · Cambridge

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 93 years
  1. 13 Mar 1899BornBorn in Middletown
  2. 1929AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1950AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble
  4. 1950AwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
  5. 1960AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  6. 1961AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy
  7. 1965AwardIrving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
  8. 1966AwardNational Medal of Science
  9. 1967AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1971AwardElliott Cresson Medal
  11. 1974AwardLorentz Medal
  12. 1977AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  13. 27 Oct 1980DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1899 – 1980).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids. He shared the Prize with Philip W. Anderson and Nevill Mott.

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